Libero and Virgil, days of fire, aren’t the S23 really already official? | HD rewind 50

Here we are with a new one hd rewind, the appointment in which we tell you the most significant news and curiosities of the week in a different key. Although it is a summary, the resulting article is often not short. So here is an index to comfortably juggle the various topics.

Libero and Virgilio Mail, problems finally resolved

The week was marked by disservices to Libero and Virgilio Mail. It’s the loudest news of all, and with good reason. Because if it is true that the sudden and sometimes even intermittent inaccessibility of the most varied platforms in terms of size and type we are used tomake the news but after a couple of hours the emergency returns and ends there, the disservice for those who have a Libero or Virgilio email didn’t last a couple of hours. The first reports are on Tuesday 24, then the problem evidently gets out of hand, apologies arrive from the top management and official press releases together with those of the trade associations, now committed to channeling the users’ requests for compensation. And the days go by, until press release of Thursday 26 in which ItaliaonLine announces the “progressive return to normality”.

Two full days plus most of the thirdbecause until early yesterday afternoon of user reports on downdetector.it there were still hundreds especially for Libero Mail. Long times, indeed very long times due to the reduced time horizons to which progress has accustomed us, but at least it seems to have served to “protect data integrity of our users”as stated in the note of 26. The “downs” are an annoying constant of the internet age, I repeat, of the accidents along the way that are most often inevitable in which even the giants of the web stumble: Facebook and Instagram, for example , have always kept the average high, and without going far this week there have been some events similar to Eolo and also to the Microsoft cloud.

So in itself there would be nothing strange, were it not for the long times to return to normal, caused, I’m sure, by extraordinary circumstances that may have even ended up intertwining. But the bad impression and with it the escape to other shores of users who work with e-mail, and if it is impossible (and it is) to completely avoid blackouts, I hope that this unfortunate parenthesis has helped to understand how to deal more quickly similar events in the future. Because, and I clearly don’t hope so, no one can guarantee that they won’t come back.

Are you sure the Galaxy S23s aren’t already official?

Looking beyond Italy, it has been a week spatial in sense strict for NASAwhich validated the rotary detonation rocket engine for interplanetary vehicles, e spatial in sense side for Samsung: as per last week’s forecast, the Galaxy S23s held the scene once again, for the last one before the “gong”. Last Sunday the picture was already quite clear: during the week there was talk of prices, renderings, technical data sheets, cameras, in short, everything. In recent days the rumors have gone deeper, even if it didn’t seem possible:

Here a handy summary about everything we know.

One consideration. It is said that three clues are needed to test it, on the Galaxy S23 price list of credible rumors we only have two. Although I don’t have a glass ball, I consider them sufficient to assume the price increase compared to last year’s top of the range, and I would be very surprised if the Italian prices of the S23s that will come out on February 1st differ by even 50 euros compared to those we have reconstructed on both occasions. In my opinion the margin of error can be a few tens of euroshowever, nothing that could shift the balance on an expense of a thousand: the prices, ten plus ten less, are those.

Today privacy day, Apple between stick and carrot

The trend of the prices is on the rise due to inflation (WindTre, moreover, has included the adjustment clause in mobile contracts, operational since February), that of ratings down for much the same reason. Apple in the week has reduced trade-in values ​​for iPhones: in a few days an iPhone 12 Pro Max depreciated up to 85 euros, a 13 Pro Max up to 80 euros and so on; the only evaluations to remain unchanged are those of the iPhone XS, XR and 8, while the only one to growgoes to understand the reason, is to iPhone 8 Plus: worth 5 euros more.

A few euros saved from the iPhones received in exchange e a few dollars recovered from the production cost of the new Macs. A questionable choice to say the least, that of saving on the storage speed of even the “basic” MacBook Pros (512 GB), a machine for which you still need 2,500 euros for a 14″ and 3,100 euros from 16″. It had already happened once, we’re on the second one: let’s hope it doesn’t become a habit.

Microsoft options ChatGPT, “refreshing” smartphone on the way

He had anticipated it in Davos, Microsoftthe intention of integrate the ChatGPT “engine” into its servicesfrom the Azure cloud to Bing, during the week from words to deeds, with a investment “multi-year billionaire” which, they hope, will help achieve the goal. It could be the card with which Redmond can redeem the years, the several years, passed by Bing in the shadow of Google, which is now struggling to react. A strategic move of extraordinary importance that announced this week. The curiosity to understand remains what will be the next moves of Microsoftsurely, but also of Googleand also how (and if) it will deal with the various perplexities and criticisms that have rained down on ChatGPT, the last of which has the world of scientific publications as its sender.

I close with a rumor that emerged during the week, which started as such and evolved to become a certainty. Someone will have read about the discovery of an account Colaphone on Twitter (actually opened in November 2022) and the resulting indiscretion about an alleged Coca-Cola branded smartphone. No one ever thought that the multinational would design a smartphone from scratch, the options at stake in a sea of ​​perplexity were rather two: that an existing product would have been rebranded by acknowledging something to Realme, because the resemblance to Realme 10 4G was clear from the only render in our possession, or that it would have launched an ad hoc version of an existing smartphone, a sort of special edition.

Realme, after a couple of days, confirmed that the correct hypothesis was the first, in fact will sell the Realme 10 4G project for a smartphone to Coca-Cola “really refreshing”. A flash story from beginning to end, because if the rumor has deflated soon indeed almost immediately not even the smartphone will require who knows what wait: debut in the coming weeks in India, probable that at least initially it will not arrive in Europe. But Colaphone’s parable teaches us that surprises are just around the corner.

Thanks to Filippo Vendrame’s “wrist” for the selection.